A solid seven years have now passed since The Elder Scrolls 6 debuted with its short teaser trailer at E3 in 2018. Since then, little news about the upcoming RPG has surfaced – and no, passing references like the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:post-Oblivion Remastered mention from💜 Todd Howa🦩rd and the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:NPC auction that raised $85,000 don't count. It comes as no surprise, then, that we fans were expecting (or coping, 🅷really) to see the seemingly forsaken title at Summer Game Fest.

Did we, though? Nope! Another year, another miss for Elder🀅 Scrolls fans – and we're making our voices heard online, it seems.

"13 years, seven months, and 27 days I've wa🐬ited," writes a fellow disappointed player on , who seems to be off by a month in their calculations, bu♛t it's been so long, who can blame them at this point?

"I was in elementary school when Skyrim came out, and my friend and I made a joke that we'd be adults 🐓when ES6 came out," comments another. "Wrapping up college now, maybe Todd [Howard] will pull through."

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Elsewhere, another post on sees a fan speculating about the possibility of a 2026-2028 release. "It still stings a bit that we didn't get anything about the g🌜ame," they explain. "I can understand us not getting a trailer, but I would have liked a sit-down interview with either Todd or Pete." A separate features even more upset voices, with players expressing how they're losing hope: "I am usually an optimist, but I feel like giving up."

There are countless replies echoing the same sentiment, and as a massive Elder Scrolls stan myself, I can't help but agree with them. Sure, we recently got 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Elder Scrolls 4💃: Oblivion Remastered, but when will we get something new? There are only so many Skyrim re-runs I can personally stomach, and only so many platforms to re-release older entries from the RPG series on – please hear (and answer) our pleas, God Howard.

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"GOG has a great reputation, they are not as big as Sಌteam but always put in more time and effort than any other platform," Skyblivion project lead Kyle "Rebelzize" Rebel tells . "We are looking to get Skyblivion into as many hands as possible, and GOG will be a great partner to help make that possible. We will still try to self-distribute, but I doubt we can beat stable GOG servers."

Rebel says the Skyblivion team was "definitely inspired" by Fallout: London's release 🍰on GOG. "Before [that], I had never thought of a creative solution like this."

Yesterday's show confirmed a 2025 release꧃ date for the project, and Rebel says, "We are working with GOG to ensure a stable rollout when the time c✅omes." They're currently "working around the clock to the best of our abilities to make sure we make that release goal," and also trying to meet some stretch goals.

"Having said that, unt🌠il Sk🔯yblivion is available to download for everyone, I will enjoy no relief."

A GOG spokesperson tells Ro🌠ck Paper Shotgun, "Our partnership with Team FOLON, creators of the amazing Fallout: London experience, paved the way forward, underlining that we, as a platform, had a unique role in the gaming industry, allowing us to provide very unique solutions to very unique problems. Reachin🦄g out to the Skyblivion team felt like an obvious next step."

GOG positions itself as a bastion of game preservation. Owned by Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red, it provides DRM-free games. Once you buy a game on 🌳the storefront and download it, you own it forever.

It's launching the One-click Mods initiative because of the belief that "mods are an essential part of video game pre🅺servation." Often, mods go where develop𒐪ers won't, making older games more playable on modern consoles.

"As for the steps required to play, we're still working on them; however, it is very likely that we would propose two options: if you own the base game on GOG, you will only need to add the one-click version of the mod to your account, press install and... just play," explains the GOG spokesperson. "If 🐓you don’t, th🔴ere will be a few additional steps, but we will do our best to make it as simple as possible."

Luckily, the not-so-surprising release of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Oblivion Remastered hasn't impacted Skyblivion. "As for the release of Oblivion Remastered, it⛦s success only underlines how eager the gaming community is to experience classic games with a fresh touch, and we believe they’ll be very pleased with Skyblivion as wel🐻l," assures GOG.

While you wait for Skyblivion, check out everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2025.

An avalanche of posts on the Starfield subreddit began as soon as the stream finished, despairing at the lack of a roadmap. Without even a sug🦄gestion of more D💝LC arriving in the near future, people are starting to think the studio’s priorities are elsewhere.

"What a joke," starts . "Unfortunately Bethesda doesn't se♌em to care." This sentiment carried through to several others. "After so much time of silence, the game looks so dead now, it's sad," emphatically states.

One goes so far as to thank modders for expanding Starfield in lieu of what's starting to feel 🦋like developer apathy. "Thank you to all the modders out there who have kept the game on life support. I fear, though, 🎉we're getting dangerously close to the heart monitor flatlining," they state.

An at Bethesda’s track record demonstrates why players are so forlorn. In the past, the company's major games have gotten🐓 up to five full-on DLC packs within the first year of release. Oblivion, 🐈Fallout 3, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 were all well supported in the first 18 months of their availability.

Meanwhile, Starfield has gotten a single substantial dose of downloadable content in the form of Shattered Space, which came out in September 2024, over a year after launch. A further DLC expansion hasn't been formally announced, but direct🦂or Todd Howard previously that "there will be another one," and hinted that Bethesda would be "more or less" aiming for annual expansions for "hopefully a very long time."

Withou💝t a release window, however, it's looking like the next DLC will almost certainly arrive over 🌸two years from when people started playing the spacefaring open-world adventure.

There’s been some rationalizing, with it being brought up that Howard has ment🥂ioned before he wants to resist announcing anything until there's something tangible to show. Having now sat through seven years of questions about The Elder Scrolls 6, he probably wants to avoid doing so for any𒊎thing else on the slate.

Still, it's worrying, since Starfield hasn't been the groundbreaking new chapter anyone really hoped or thought it would be. Marketing emails raised eyebrows about the Xbox livestream, creating what would become f꧟alse hope for onlookers.

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If you've been playing Oblivion Remastered's Dark Brotherhood quest, there's a good chance that you've come across Adamus Phillada. This Imperial soldier features as part of two different quests - one♔ which had me lurking in a skooma den for a day, and the other in which you're tasked with putting this 👍nosy copper down for good.

Phillada is such a thorn in the side of🧜 the Dark Brotherhood that you're given a special 'one-hit' arrow to kill him with. The catch is that he's retired to the city of Leyawiin, where, as an esteemed commander, he's got a constant security detail, and spends most of his life strutting around in fancy armor that your arrow can't pierce.

The brief exception to this rule is when Phillada is asleep - at which point he's safely locked up in the guard house - or when he goes for his daily swim. At this point, he's supposed to remove his armor, giving a𒐪ny nearby assassins an easy shot at him. In Oblivion Remastered, however, he doesn't always do that, and spends multiple hours bobbing up and down in full plate.

It's an interesting glitch, in that it wasn't present in the original Oblivion, and it also doesn't actually matter - the game shows Phillada's armor, but it doesn't register it, so you can take your shot and cut his pool time short. I only found this out after I'd already killed Phillada, but if I'd known, I surely would have come up with a kill something like the o🗹ne below.

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In a clip acknowledging the Assassin's Creed roots of a parkour kill like this, Reddit user One_question_113 uses some impressive Acrobatics to take to the rooftops of Leyawiin, leaping so deftly across the tiles that I would have assumed they were playing a Khajiit if I didn't know better.

Sprinting off the final rooftop, they draw a bow and their special Brotherhood arrow, burying it in Phillada's armored head as they land, entirely unhurt, in the pool next 🌼t🌞o him. A fitting end for easily the most frustrating Dark Brotherhood kill in the game.

Oblivion Remastered's first patch is out now in beta to iron out the RPG's janky charm, and Bethesda is already working on another one that "will focus on performance."

Oblivion Remastered update 1.1 is out now for Steam Beta users, but will be rolled out for everyone else on June 11. This one is mainly focused on bug fixes and crash🐎es, with 11 specific crashes as well as "various CPU crashes" all ironed out, hopefully making for a smoother experience.

Five quests have had fixes applied, including one to stop Savlian gettin📖g stuck after The Battle for Kvatch's Castle Courtyard fight, and another to prevent Vicente Valtieri from "losing his hair" in A Knife in the Dark.

Elsewhere, a handful animations have been fixed in various ways – issues you might have seen when mounting horses should be gone, Shambles' animations when attacking should no longer get stuck, and High Chancellor Ocato's arms should actually be animated now. Some UI fixes, like missing subtitles when interacting with Daedric Shrines and the Local Map not automatic𒁏ally showing up inside places, have also been implemented.

Bethesda hasn't currently given many details about the second update or when exactly we can ꦇexpect it to release, beyond saying that it "will focus on performance, and we will share more details when we are able." In the revealing this news (which also goes over the full patch notes for the first update, if you want all of those details), it mentions working on "two🃏 separate updates to be launched in the coming weeks," so presumably we shouldn't have too long to wait for that second one.

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Over on Twitter, the aptly-named RPG Enjoyer shared a spell they'd knocked together over at the Mage's Guild, which lets players stitch magical effects together, often with comical results. In many instances, those are c𝓡ocktails of bu▨ffs that grant game-breaking quantities of Speed or 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Acrobatics, or help them boost unfortunate NPC🌳s' chances oওf survival. Not this time, however.

RPG Enjoyer's spell, which they spent more than 6,000 gold to create, is a strange mix of the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good news is that it grants a total of two minutes of resistance to poison. The bad news is that it🍌 also paralyzes the player for a full two minutes.

So what's the ღugly news, you ask? Well, the spell also summons a Spider Daedra - a terrifying, towering combination of woman and spider - on the player's location. You might ask why, but I think that question is answered by the spell's custom name: ꩲAlone Time with Mommy.

It's a deeply...imaginative use of Oblivion's spell system. To recap, you're dropping a spider-monster on your own head, buffing yourself so you're immune to its poison damage, but also paralyzing yourself so that you're totally unable to adjust to its eight-legged advances. Just to ensure that you're not missing the point, RPG Enjoyer responded to one suggestion that they should have added a Fatigue buff into their spel💧l with the rebuttal that "I want to be wrꩵung out like a dishcloth" once it's all over.

One thing I don't know is just how much magicka this spell uses. Three different effects for two full minutes seems like it would require a massive reserve of magical energy, which makes the entire thing even funnier - there's a decent chance that to even cast the spell in the first place, you'd have to take a little blue potion in order to have enough magical stamina to ꦇperform the spell in the first place.

I've spent 20 hours playing Oblivion Remastered as an evil tourist, and may have accidentally found the best way to play Bethesda's liveliest RPG.

Curry, a beloved figure in the Skyrim community, recently 🃏decided to dip her toes into the new remaster after a decade of The Elder Scrolls 5. Her first foray into Oblivion just two days ago proved that going back to the older game, although greatly improved, isn't all that easy after playing Skyᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrim for so long. For one, the control scheme is different – different enough to have frustrated the RPG-loving grandmother, anyway.

She had exclaimed how Oblivion Remastered had "ugly moꦰvement… just ugly movement" 🍸in the first few minutes of her playthrough, although it did seem like she warmed up to the game as she continued her adventure. Her most recent video, however – a follow-up highlighting her ongoing save in the new Oblivion – shows that she's, understandably, "still learning" the ropes in Bethesda's remaster.

Around three minutes into the second gameplay video, Curry takes on a rat but struggles to kill it – an amusing but relatable situation, if I do say so myselౠf. "I want to see what's in that box," she says, looking at a wooden chest after wondering why she couldn't kill a rat. The point🃏 of view then pans over to the creature that, in true Bethesda RPG fashion, appears to be stuck in a wall, as she begrudgingly states, "This stupid thing won't die."

Curry gives up and then grapples with what might just be Oblivion's worst feature – its pesky lockpicking: "Uh oh." Uh oh indeed. Thankfully, Skyrim Grandma does eventually get into the chest and makes her way around to Chorrol. She does seem to enjoy some of the remaster, too, admitting she's "just playing and having a good time" – but she also does close until "next time" by laughing that "I don't know what I'm doing."

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Speaking to in a recent interview, senior developer "Cicero" first admits that the project is moving more quickly than before. "I'm thinking w♏e'll be done in 2035," says the lead. "Just by projection. I've been around since 2011, 2012. I've seen what TR is like when it's slow, and I've seen what it's like when it's fast, and we've been fast since 2018. It's just been getting faster and faster and faster since then."

Cicero's statemen checks out – after all, Tamriel Rebuilt just got its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"biggest expansion ever" in Grasping Fortune, an update that added the Hlaalu capital of Narsis a🃏s well as over 140 new dungeons and more than 270 new quests. Creature animator "Grumbling Vomit" seems to agree that the mod is moving at a fast pace, too, predicting an even closer wrap-up: "I really feel that we can complete all of mainland Morrowind, maybe even this decade."

"We've got a lot of momentum," adds Grumbling Vomit. "Just depends on how much time is devoted to improving what has already been made vs implementing new regions." Now that an official Elder Scrolls remake like Oblivion Remastered is out, however, it's surprising to hear from the two developers that the Tamriel Rebuilt team isn't really concerned at all that Bethesda could cook one up for ൩Morrowind any time soon.

"I'm always happy to hear when Todd [Howard] says he doesn't want a Morrowind Remasಞter," explains Cicero, "because that would just mess things up… Modernizing Morrowind would just ruin the game entirely." The dev doesn't expect one to actually come to fruition in the future, either. "The thing is, [Oblivion] is easier to remaster than Morrowind, so I don't think we're worried about it."

On the other hand, though, Oblivion Remastered helped Tamriel Rebuilt as the mod's new expansion released just a week after Bethesda's big remake, "and we kind of got sucked into that wave of Elder Scrolls news." As for Grumbling Vomit, h🐬e thinks "Morrowind is an amazing game and more people should experience it," but he do🌠es wonder "about how it may impact the modding community" if an official remaster did come.

"I know I have a bias," concludes the Tamriel Rebuilt dev, "but I'd rather have a completed TR over 'Morrowind but with prettier pixels.'" His thoughts make sense – especially when you consider how much the modders have in store for their project. So much, in fact, that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:they expect it to ou🌺tlast The Elder Scrolls 6 – just as it previously did Oblivion, Skyrim, and now, of course, Oblivion Remastered.

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There's no shortage of silly Oblivion Remastered challenges or feats achieved by players – a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:leap across the entire map allowed by 15,000 points poured into Acrobatics, a fan managing to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:paralyze their charac𒅌ter for 66 years, you name it – and Reddit user "HeirꦯT0TheMonado" 🅺offers no exception with their literally out-of-the-world jump. Highlighting their step out of the Oblivion Remastered map in a recent , they explain how it's done.

"I took ONE step," writes HeirT0TheMonado, describing how they "immediately decided I had to escape the world boundary" using a trick found via YouTube. Attached is a clip of their character soaring outside of the RPG's boundaries in just one move – and "prerequisites" to doing so: "Craft t✅he shown spells and a means of recovering/sustaining your Magicka, and have high enough Restoration, Alteration, and Illusion skill to cast them."

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After checking off the list, one needs to summon a skeleton – "recommended to craft a Summon Skeleton spell with max duration so you have longer to cast, otherwise you're🀅 restricted to 20-ish casts of the next step," though. Then, they'll have to "apply the Fortify Speed spells to the skelly, alternating between each to allow it to stack." No spamming, however, as doing so "will only refresh the duration."

Just two more steps after that, as the Redditor states: "Once between 20-40 casts, use the Absorb Speed spell. Maximum is 40 casts grant𓆉ing 1.8 billion Speed; any further and it overflows to basically nothing. I used 33 casts for 222 million." Afterward, tap W to move forward. "It may take a few tries to launch yourself at the right angle," concludes the poster, "but eventually Mundus WILL fail to contain your sheer bullshit."

It's so amusing to watch, I might just give it a go myself while playing – and considering how fast HeirT0TheMonado zooms through the sky in their video, I personally can't even begin to imagine what the potential 1.8 billion Speed would look like, or where it could take someone. A commenter on the Reddit thread might have the right idea, though: "See you in Elder Scrolls 6."

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🎶"As requested, I'm using a stair c♛limber this time! This is accomplished with a phone app in my pocket connected to my PC, and when it recognizes movement, I move in the game," they explain.

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It takes them 3,686 real-life steps and just over 45 minutes to get from the first step to the gates of High Hrothgar, wher🐼e the Greybeards live. I've used a star machine in the gym before and 🧸let me tell you, that's incredibly impressive – those things are pure evil.

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A few cont꧃racts into Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood line, you're sent after a mystery figure. All Vicente can tell you is his name, and the fact that he's a High Elf who goes for long walks around the Imperial City. Clearly, there was some sleuthing to be done, so I headed to the Elven Garden District, figuring that would be the best place to get a lead on a🃏n enigmatic Elf.

It didn't take long until I had my lead. My target, Faelian, could often be seen wandering around the Tiber Septim Hotel. From the🌺re, he'd be easy to find, but my contract required him to be killed in secret, so that his death might look like just another murder. I'd have to follow him, work out where he goes – so to make sure I'd have an excuse for loite💖ring around the fanciest hotel in the Empire, I booked a room for the night.

True Detective

Of course, this is an Elder Scrolls game, and no-one would have batted an eyelid if I'd simply stood outside Faelian's door for 24 hours straight. But my decision to actually stake out my target was a marked departure from a playstyle that had previously hinged around repeatedly battering my enemies to death in Oblivion Remastered's Arena. Suddenly, I felt like I wanted to take my time, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:and play things out in a more subtle way.

My patience paid off. I located Faelian, but even though he managed to slipﷺ away as I waited for the coast to clear, he left behind his long-suffering girlfriend. She was quick to tell me that her boyfriend is addicted to skooma, and that she'd followed him to an abandoned house elsewhere in the city. Knowing that I'd eventually catch him there, I headed to his skooma haunt, picked the lock, and settled in for my stakeout.

Knowing that I had plenty of time – this was early afternoon and I knew Faelian left the hotel in the early hours of the morning – I scoped out the house. For the most part, I found shattered furniture and a few bottles of skooma that I'm yet to find a better use for, but I also discovered the body of the house's former occupant lying in a p♕ool of his own blood in the basement. As a member of the Dark Brotherhood, it's not really🌟 up to me to decide who deserves to be assassinated, but it's nice to know that my target (probably) deserves his fate.

Patience is a virtue

Having cleared the house of everything useful, I settled in to wait for Faelian. I figured I'd be here a while, but I didn't really want to just use the 'Wait' function to skip ahead for him to show up. So instead, I read through a few of the books I'd picked up on my travels, and had a snack of bread, cheese, and fruit that I pilfered from the kitchen, all while sat on a chair in perfect view of the door. Faelian would see me the moment he walked in the door, but I figured that th🧸ere's something appropriately unsettling about someone waiting in your drug den while🍬 nursing a bottle of ale.

Ironically, it's Faelian who eventually gets the drop on me. Momentarily distracted in real life, I jump when a wired-looking Elf walks through the door and immediately engages me in nonsense conversation. Thankfully, my surprise does💮n't stop me from taking Faelian down in two punches, even as he flees for the door. To keep up the illusion, I drag him to the chair I've been sitting him and bury a knife in his back - a callback to the skooma-fueled murder I assume he committed, and an attempt to cover my own tracks 💛by making this look like a random killing, not a Brotherhood-sanctioned hit. A job well-done, I fade into the crowds of the Imperial City.

Since then, I've continued my Dark Brotherhood roleplaying across a suite of other hits. For the infamous Murder Mansion, I dressed in my finest garb, before slipping out of sight and donning my Brotherhood gear instead. I scouted out a distant stronghold, napping in a nearby camp as I waited for cover of night to infiltrate it, complete with a handy night vision ring. Rig🍃ht now, I'm travelling far to the south of Cyrodiil, disguised as a priest so as to not attract too much attention on the road, sheltering from th𝕴e rain in nearby caves and scrumping vegetables for my mobile supper. It's a peculiarly honest take on some deeply dishonest work, but it's offering me a connection to Oblivion Remastered that's far deeper than I expected, and the kind of thing that could easily keep me exploring for another 20 hours or more.

Faelian isn't the only skooma fiend in Cyrodiil, thanks to one streamer who turned Emperor Uriel Septim himself into a skoom-hound.

Stendarr's Mercy is a quest that makes up the Knights of the Nine questline, which featured as DLC for the original release of Oblivion. For many of those OG players, it's the kind ܫof quest that you wouldn't have undertaken until the endgame, which might have made what comes next less of an issue. But in the remaster, you can pick it up pretty easily, leading to an unfortunate situation for one player.

Over on Reddit, one player says that Stendarr's Mercy was the "very first quest" they did in the Knights🦩 of the Nine line, "and that was soon after I started my playthrough." The quest involves a mysterious curse afflicting an NPC called Kellen, which can only be 'cured' by being passed on to someone else. The player has the chance to take on the curse, freeing Kellen, but incurring a Fatigue penalty in the process.

For a late-game player, that Fatigue nerf might be annoying, but it's likely to rarely come into play. For an early-game player, however, you might find yourself running low pretty often, especially when rꦡunning or jumping around the open world. When the curse afflicts you, that drain becomes doubly frustrating, because now when you run out of stamina, your character falls straight to the floor, ragdolling chaoti꧟cally as they go.

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The only way to fix the curse is to complete the entire Knights of the Nine quest. That's easier said than done, because the full line includes travel to nine different shrines, their related side-quests, a series of battles against the gods' chosen kni🗹ghts, and then another journey to gather a series of holy relics before the final battle. Suffice to say, this is no simple fetch-quest, which might explain why this particular player says they've been suffering from the effects of t꧂heir curse for more than 100 hours, having picked it up right at the beginning.

As if the constant falling down isn't bad enough, the c🌃ommunity was on hand to offer a warning: never let yourself run out of stamina while swimming. If you do, your character will ragdoll in the 💦water, and then be unable to find any ground upon which to stand up. The result is a player lying face down in the water forever - or at least until you reload a save. After all, it's not exactly a fitting end for the Hero of Kvatch.

Oblivion Remastered player spends 55,000 years in jail after a 2-billion bounty crime spree, breaking the in-game calendar in the process.

Recently, Cain has been making clear that he doesn't own any of the Fallout source code. When he left developer Interplay, he says he was ordered to destroy his personal development archive. That led to rumors that the entire code had been lost or destroyed, until Interplay co-founder Rebecca Heinemann revealed that she had the Fallout source code, and so did a handful of other people.

Nevertheless, Cain is not one of those people. That's partly because when Interplay told him not to keep any development materials, he took them seriously. "I destroyed every copy of the source code I had," he says. "I went so far to destroy it that I destroyed e🐎arly prototypes and lib🦹raries."

It was an aggressive approach - so aggressive, i▨n fact, that Cain can no longer get some of his older personal projects to work. Those projects "referenced a library that I destroyed the only copy of [...] when I destroyed Fallout, and all of the code, and even the early prototype that I made." W♛ith no library to compile them, those projects are lost forever.

It sounds as though, even if he did have the library, Cain would struggle to get those projects working. In a recent video, he lists multiple reasons why ❀he couldn't get a Fallout remaster going, but one of those is the fact that the compiler the team used is a buggy, unsupported mess that didn't really work properly at the time. Even if it could work now, Cain says he wouldn't know - while he has the old CD, his PC doesn't have a C⛦D drive to let him install it.

There are, of course, plenty of other obstacles between Cain and a Fallout remaster. Several of those are the kinds of legal issues that he says much of his original team would never have known about. Among those, for instance, is the fact that the game's music license might allow for a song's use in perpetuity, but only for that one game - the license never referred to the possibility of a remaster, so it would have to be renegotiated. And that's just scratching the surface. In the end, Cain reckons it's Bethesda who'd have dibs on a Fallout remaster - but with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Oblivion Remastered having crawled recently from the woodwork, perhaps that's more of a reality than we on💎ce thought.

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In a post on Reddit, Scribe_of_Satire said "to anyone wondering what'd happen if you went to jail with a bounty of over 2 billion, here ya go!" Indeed, their rap🐻 sheet featured a largest bounty of 2.105 billion gold, across more than one million items stolen.

To their credit, there's very little other crime on this list. They only pickpocketed a single items, a🃏nd never trespassed any🐈where, murdered or assaulted anyone, or even rustled a single horse.

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Nevertheless, their apparent reign as God-King of every Thieves' Guild from Solitude to Black Marsh ca🧜me to an end, with a total jail time of more than 20 million days. That's about 55,000 years, which to 🤪put in its real-world perspective would have seen Neanderthals still doing pretty well here on Earth.

That amount of time is one that Oblivion Remastered doesn't reall🐬y seem equipped to handle. By the time Scribe of Satire emerged from their 50-millennia lockup, their game decided that it was the year -9,818 of Tamriel's third era, suggesting that at some point the in-game calendar simply looped back on itself. For clarity, the events of th💟e game are supposed to take place in 3E 433, so the timeline is all kinds of messed up.

It's not an entirely unique way of experiencing the game, however. One Oblivion player, while admittedly a less prolific thief, spent 19 years in jail - the kind of time that really should have seen the Oblivion crisis resolve itself through natural means. Another player placed themselves in a prison of their own making, creating a paralysis spell so powerful that it trapped them for 66 years. For context, that's longer than Emperor Uriel Septim - whose reign ran for decades - ruled over the Empire. 55,000 years does beat both of those totals out, but I wonder if anyone else will be able to beat it.

19 years later, Oblivion Remastered has renewed my interest in walking into people’s houses uninvited.

This tale of woe put me off Oblivion for years. Between the apparent ability to accidentally trap yourself in an alternate world and the imminent arrival of Skyrim, I'd heard enough that I felt no need to lose dozens of hours to The Elder Scrolls 4. But with the arrival of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Oblivion Remastered, I felt it was finally timღe to re🧜ctify this gap in my Bethesda knowledge - and finally put right the wrong my friend had suffered.

The observant among you may recognize this painted prison as a key part of the A Brush With Death side-quest. In it, the player is tasked with finding a missing artist - who, it quickly becomes clear, has somehow entered into his own painting. Thanks to a magic paintbrush bestowed on his father by the goddess Dibella, the artist is able to create exceedingly lifelike worlds by stepping into his artwork. Unfortunately, the brush is stolen from him - a thief bashes him on the head, stuffs him inside his painting, and jumps in, painting in some trolls to help cover hi🍌s tracks. Without the brush, the painter is trapped forever, but with six trolls guarding it, there's nothing he can do.

When you follow the artist into his painting, he'll tell you that the thief is a🍰lready dead - his head caved in by the monsters he conjured to keep him safe. It's now your job to recover the brush, without which neither of you will ever be able to return to the real world. The only way out is to kill all the trolls, and return the brush to its master.

Paint me a word quest

If this sounds about as simple as most Oblivion sidequests, that's because it is. Your objective amounts to little more than 'kill six monsters', all of whom are so spread out that you can easily take them on one at a time. The multi-troll beatdown I'd imagined my friend suffering through all those years ago could only manifest if you ran through the painted world, aggroing all six of them at once, and surely he hadn't done that.

Deeply confused, I sought answers. 'I beat this super easy Oblivion Remastered quest today', I told him. 'Something about some trolls and a painting?' I didn't take him long to catch on, but while I ꦗmade fun of his apparent ineptitude, he explained that I was forgetting a major part of the story.

I'd ไassumed that my friend had been critically underleveled. There was no way this could be an issue with gear - I ran through the trolls with a hand-to-hand build and some tatty light armor. Maybe he's accidentally stumbled upon the painted world far too early? In fact, almost th♈e opposite true - my friend was far enough into the game that he'd become a vampire. But what normally should have offered a combat advantage is exactly what held him back in this quest.

There will be blood

Vampirism in Oblivion offers a powerful boost to several stats and attri💫butes, particularly if you haven't fed for a few days. Unfortunately, if that's the case, hungry vampires will also take significant damage from sunlight - while your strength, sไpeed, stealth, and destructive magic might all be much stronger at 100% vampirism, you'll also take eight points of damage every second that you're out in the sun.

Most of the time, that's not a problem. It's easy enough to stay indoors, wait until nightfall, or even stroll around Oblivion for a while if you want to stay in the shade. The painted world, however, is a picture, and it's one where the artist has chosen to replicate a sunny day. There are no cloudy days or starlit nights, just a perfect blue sky that will do some real damage to any vampire foolish enough to get stuck in this sun-soaked painting. Trapped in the sunlight, my friend's vampire was burned to a crisp long before he could race through all the trolls, and that meant loading an hours෴-old save or abandoning the playthrough all together.

It might be one of the edgiest of edge cases, but it's an Oblivion story that's (mostly) stuck with me for nearly 20 years. And as unfortunate as it might have been, it's also testament to just how effective an RPG The Elder Scrolls 4 was, even all those years ago. The series' take on vampirism was always keen to play blessing off against curse, but it's rare to see the negatives well and truly win out in that particular matchup. Oblivion might be showing its age, even in this remaster, but one thing it still 🍃nails is consequence - the freedom of its world still shines through (albeit sometimes a little too bright) and the depth of its systems remains clear. Nearly two decades after being convinced that this game really wasn't for me, 🔴I've found that not only did I never really have anything to be afraid of, but that there's more to experience here than I ever expected.

My first 3 hours in Oblivion Remastered were crammed with 2006 weirdness, making it the perfect reimagining of my favorite RPG

I sat down with senior developer Jackimoff Wackimoff (I'm going with Jack), anꩲd I learned ꦐthat virtually no one from the original crew that kickstarted Tamriel Rebuilt in 2001 is still working on the mod. Jack has only been around since 2021, and they describe themselves as "one of the most senior developers" on TamrielRebuiltTeam.

Jack tells me the biggest change in direction over the decades since the mod's conception is the vastly expanded scope and ambition of the project, which now encompasses and , distinct but TR-compatible Morrowind mods bringing "several provinces" of Tamriel and Cyrodiil's Imperial Province, r﷽espectively, to Morrowind.

In the wake of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Oblivion: Remastered, TamrielRebuiltTeam serendipitously capitalized on the revitalized energy around the Elder Scrolls world by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:dr🃏opping the biggest Tamriel Rebuil🍒t update ever, Grasping Fortune, which added the Hlaalu capital of Narsi⛎s as well as over 140 new dungeons and more than 270 new quests.

With a playable landmass larger in size thaꦛn Oblivion that lets you explore previously non-playable locations like Old Ebonheart, Port Telvannis, Firewatch, and Necrom, it's natural to wonder when the Tamriel Rebuilt modders plan to wrap a bow around the whole thing and move on to something else. Jack's answer gave me an existential crisis knowing they and I will probably be dead when that happens.

"The joke amon💧gst the devs is that it will definitely be done by 2090," they tell me.

Making the bold assumption that The Elder Scrolls 6 is out by then, I ask if there's any concern Bethesda's next RPG will take t🉐he wind out of Tamriel Rebuilt's sails, and they say the battle-tested mod team isn't♌ the slightest bit worried.

"It survived Skyrim, which was one of, if not the most popular game ever made, if you can survive an impact like that... We've got developers that are still around, who are from before Oblivion came out," says Jack. "They saw people worried that Oblivion would kill the mod. Aᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚnd they saw it not do that. They saw people worried that Skyrim would kill the mod. They saw it not do that. Oblivion Remastered [too.]

"It seems, honestly, subsequent releases just bol🌠stered the people. There's a certain section of people that will play the new one and go, 'this isn't the RPG experience that I was looking for. Where can I find that?'"

Although Jack's confidence in Tamriel Rebuilt borders bravado, they've got a good point. The people playing a modded version of a 23-year-old game aren't exactly The Elder Scrolls 6's target audience. There will be some crossover in player bases, for sure, but there's no denying the Tamriel Rebuilt community is entirely distinct from the broader Elder Scrolls community, so it's fair to point to the mod's historical resilience to new entries as proof of its staying༒ power.

But Jack's not just saying that. They're also predicting there will be 💙people who play The Elder Scrolls 6 and abandon it for Tamriel Rebuilt.

"We recognize that Bethesda as it was is not the samꦬe as Bethesda as it is, for better or for worse," they say. "And in that, what we're trying to do is we're trying to recapture what exactly they would have been intending [with Morrowind] at the time."

Using publi🎐cly available lore books like the , the lore masters at TamrielRebuiltTeam have been filling in the Morrowind world's blank spaces under the watchful eye of "resident project hist🌊orian" Sultan of Rum, and the process has been dutifully recorded over the project's own 120-plus page .

My point being, if anyone's put in 🌜the work to say with some confidence♐ that a Morrowind mod will outlive The Elder Scrolls 6, it's these people.

With The Elder Scrolls 6 still MIA, Oblivion Remastered proves why remakes and remasters are the greatest tricks in the game developer handbook.

A screenshot posted to Reddit shows ♒a player with the paralysis status inflicted for over 2 billion secon🐬ds, or roughly 66 years.

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The player who inflicted this curse upon themself notes that 66 years is longer than the reign of the assassinated Emperor Uriel Septim VII, who ruled for 55 years – 65 if you꧅ include those 10 years he spent🌳 on the planes of Oblivion itself.

So, how do you paralyze yourself for longer than an Emperor's reign? Well, just like the player who managed to get their acrobatics and athletics skills up to 15,000, the answer probably lies in stacking weakness to magic ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚspells on yourself.

One commenter that while stacking w♏eakness to magic may have been patched out if you try and cast it directly on yourself, it's still possible to first cast a reflection spell on a summon or NPC, and then simply bounce back weakness to magic debuffs you inflict on them.

The effects double, so a 100% spell becomes 200%, then 400%, then 800%, and you can just keep going from there. Then, if you bounce a par﷽alysis spell off of them, youꦑ end up on the floor for 66 years.

I'm not sure how you recover from there, it might be a way to softlock you﷽rself.🔯 You'd have to wait for 66 in-game years to get rid of the debuff, and that would only work if you could wait while you're paralyzed in the game. So, if you try this, make a backup save so you can reload.

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In a video shared to Reddit, the ironically named Slow-Environment-637 shows off their Flash-like superspeed. Stౠarting on a grassy knoll, a hill or two away from the Imperial Ci🌟ty, they take a running jump and land right on the side of the White-Gold Tower. A single jump then catapults them into the air so they can touch down on top of it.

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They do how they managed to pull this trick off, but it's a bit convoluted. First, they summon something so they can cast a 100% reflection spell on it, meaning all future spells with a debuff it's hit with will be bounced back to the player. From there, it's a long process of hitting that summon with multiple 100% magicka weakness on touch spells that𝓰 reflect back on them, and a fortify attribute𝔉 spell on touch that also has a small negative effect, like 1% weakness to magicka, so that it actually reflects onto them.

From there, it's an endless cycle of ൩just buffing whatever attribute you want until it gets as high as you want it. They do warn that having too high an athletics skill makes you simply "zip across the map instantaneously, but not [in] a good way," and they had to "tone it down from liꦰke 1 m[illion] athletics to this."

Bethesda and Virtuos 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:kept a lot of the jank from the original game, including all the unexpected – although by now we should be calling them expected – crashes and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:horrifying character creation,.

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Such concerns were quickly shut down by both developers and the modders behind The Elder Scrolls Renewal Project, though, who said "both projects can exist" and "players are the trꦕue winner🎃s" when Oblivion Remastered launched. Rebelzize, the mastermind behind Skyblivion, went on to explain that the official remake 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"changes nothing" about the fan-led Oblivion recreation in 's engine, with plans for "bug fixes and♉ the DLC" already in place, too.

From there, a refreshingly wholesome relationship between Bethesda and The Elder Scrolls Renewal Project's creators unfolded. After 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Bethesda supp🦹lied every Skyblivi🍬on dev with a key for the new RPG, it appears the studio actually invited the creative fans to its headquarters for a first🎃hand look at where all the magic happens. A recent online💜 from Rebelzize reveals as much, sharing photos of the two dev teams together.

"Massive thanks to Bethesda Game Studios for inviting us to the office and showing us around," writes Rebelzize. "Seeing the excitement from the Bethesda team for Skyꦫblivion is absolutely unreal. Thank you."

The images attached to his post show him standing with Bethesda𒆙 head Todd Howard himself and fellow Skyblivion devs - a genuinely heartwarming set of photos, to say the least.

In a response to Rebelzize's post, Bethesda states that "it was wonderful to have you all visit," leaving a heart emoji beside the reply. As a longtime fan of The Elder Scrolls and someone who can't wait to experience Skyblivion when it releases later this year (or Skywind, for that matter, whenever it finally comes to fruition), I love seeing such good vibes shared between the official dev team and the fans behind the Renewal Project.

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In the town of Skingrad, a Wood-Elf named Glarthir can approach the player and ask for their help. As part of a quest notably named 'Paranoia', Glarthir thinks thꦜere's a conspiracy against him, and wants your help proving that he's being followed around by several of his neighbours. There are multiple ways that the quest can eventually play out, but if you tell Glarthir that he was right, but then refuse to help him take out his foes, he'll take matters into his own hands.

As you might have seen, an NPC who randomly starts a fight in the middle of a town tends to be💦 pretty quickly dispatched by Oblivion Remastered's guards. So when G🧸larthir heads off to try and kill three of his fellow characters, he often doesn't last very long. That's where one player stepped in.

Having reached the climax of the Paranoia quest, Reddit user Plane-Session-6624 decided they wanted to keep Glarthir alive. But having attempted to kit him out with some endgame armor, they found that Oꦬblivion Remastered doesn't allow for reverse pickpocketing, meaning Glarthir couldn't get that extra protection.

, the player said that "I also have a Fortify 100 Strength and 100 Endurance spell for him, and a powerful heal, but he just doesn't seem to be doing nearly enough to hurt the guards and I just can't keep my magicka ൲up long enough to heal him through it. Any ideas?"

The following day, they returned with an : "Iꦺ have created Super Saiyan Glarthir. He has mowed down hordes of guards, killed all his enemies…and got away with it all?"

Plane Session says that in the end, shields and blunt damage buffs were the key. Their eventual concoction of spells offered a 70% shield, Fortify 100 Blunt and Endurance, enhanced Agility, and a top-level healing spell for good measure. To make sure that they could keep all those buffs active, they say they spent "about 4k on sorcery potions." The overall cost, however, rose to more꧙ than 10,000 gold "between spell making, creating magicka-boosting items, and potions."

The result, however, was extremely effective. Glarthir made short work of his first target, dispatching the NPC before the guards could even intervene. But by the second fig🌸ht, Glarthir has attracted some unwanted attention from the authorities. With some help from Plane Session, the second target and two guards both fall, before Glarthir heads to his third target and does away with them too.

So far, so good, except Glarthir now has a lot of blood on his hands. The player says ꦛthey waited 4 hours to see what would happen when the rest of Skingrad's guards caught up with this mass murderer. Dawn breaks, and "dead guards [litter] the streets." Most NPCs now seem to want to have nothing to do with Glarthir, except a couple more guards who are killed after they catch him standing over the bodies of those he's slain. Once those two go down, however, Glarthir retreats to his house, where he's no longer bothered by his foes, appearing to have quite literally got away with murder, all thanks to his mysterious magical benefactor.

Elsewhere, other players are abusing Oblivion Remastered's systems in some very different ways.

I'm playing Oblivion for the first time thanks to th𓃲e remaster, but I'd long heard tell of its iconic Arena. Over a string of fights, any lowly Pit Dog can claw their way up the ladder to become its Champion, earning a decent salary for their wins in the process. Mastery of one of the game's combat systems seems to be an important part of the Arena's mythos, but you're free to approach it however you like – perhaps you go in with a gladiatorial sword and shield, or try to 🌱stay clear of an actual 'mano a mano' fight and pick off your foe at a distance with arrows or spells.

It's safe to say that I didn't take either of those approaches. I went into the Arena unarmed, my Warrior-born Orc making use꧅ of his enhanced Strength and Endurance stats to simply attempt to batter any fꦯoes into submission. It was an excellent strategy – until it wasn't.

The bigger they are

The first few fights were pretty simple. Arena Blademaster Owyn might have given me some warnings, but it wasn't long before crumpled coꦑrpses lay strewn across the sand as I wandered back to the Red Room. Oblivion's lower-tier foes simply didn't have the HP to stand up to the impressive attack speed that Hand-to-Hand combat off༺ers compared to Blunt and Blade fighting.

Even those bulkier fight💟ers protected by Heavy Armor couldn't match my assault. Hand-to-Hand, unlike other melee attacks, damages Fatigue as well as Health, and the speed of my Orc's blows meant that it didn'💯t take long before my enemies had run out of stamina, and any punch would stagger them. My strategy usually involved running down my foe, pinning them against a wall, and bludgeoning them until they dropped. There was no strategy, just ferocity.

I tried t🧸o imagine the advice that the Yellow Team captain would be offering his fighters. While Owyn was giving me clues about dodging a poisoned dagger or ducking inside hefty warhammer swings, I pictured a shell-shocked coach on the other side of the Arena - 'he's a menace, he's gonna run you down and punch you to death in 30 seconds, I'm sorry, there's nothing you can do'.

Quickly, I started climbing the ranks, but then my opponents started playing dirty. I'd been outnum💝bered before, but that time there was only one extra Wood Elf to punch out quickly and level the playing field. This time, I'd be fighting against three desperate Argonians, and found myself outmatched. If I tried to focus the lizardman wielding a sword, I'd be bludgeoned by his two allies' fists. If I tried to take down the pugilists, the swordsman would chop me to pieces. If I simply let them come, I'd be overwhelmed. Som♔ething had to change.

The harder they fall

Thankfully, something did. Orcs start with a little boos🍃t to Hand-to-Hand, and the skill also levels slightly faster than other melee skills. All that endless scale-punching bumped the skill up to Journeyman rank, at which point my power attacks gained a slight chance to disarm my opponent. I tested those odds against the Argonians, and the swordsman quickly became just another fist-fighter - one who wasn't as good with his fists as I was.

For the rest of my ascension through the Arena's ranks, this became my chosen strategy. As the Yellow Team threw ever-bulkier fighters at me, I simply walked to the centre of the pit, throwing out power attacks until they dropped their weapons. From then on, they'd square up, fists raised in an attempt to keep fighting, but would never be able to match my damage output in an even fight. Swords and shields would still litter the Aꦦrena as I left, but now they'd often be a long way from the ex-fighter who'd been wielding them.

E⛄ventually, I made it to the Champion match, where the Yellow Team once again threw three fighters at me. This time, however, there was little they could do . Once I'd knocked the sword from the hands of their strongest fighter and the bow from their sharpshooting ally, it was easy to take down the squishy wizard in the corner before turning on the other two. A few minutes later I was victorious, stomping over weapons and corpses on my way out of the Arena.

I'm yet to become Grand Champion, but that's only because the NPC currently holding that title has a character quest that I w💃ant to complete before I take him out. While I'm a little wary of his powerful enchanted armor, I'm not as scared of his massive warhammer as some people might be. After all, he won't be carrying it for very long.

I've spent 20 hours playing Oblivion Remastered as an evil tourist, and may have accidentally found the best way to play Bethesda's liveliest RPG.

Reddit user "Muaxh03" unveils their mas🌜terful creation in a recent online , attaching a clip of the book (and one sword) domino effect in action. It's mesmerizing, to say the least, and I'm not the only one who t꧟hinks so.

Comments see fellow ꧑Oblivion fans impressed with Muaxh03's skillful eye and time-consuming placement of objects so that they align perfectly – so much so, in fact, that some wrongly assume the poster used mods.

"Probably [used] a mod to allow for more precise placing," writes one such commenter, only for Muaxh03 to quickly clear the air: "No mod, I placed them one by one. I guess the only cheatin𝔍g part is I spawned the books and not found them."

I wouldn't call it cheating myself, though, especially as the poster goes on to say it took🐽 them "about 6-7 hours" to complete the setup, and getting everything to work properly was no easy feat.

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"Almost every time I loaded the save something broke," explains Muaxh03. "It was not reliable so yes I had to deal with books falling or glitching most of th🐷e times, that's 🍃why you can see some desynchronizing on the books, some fall slower or faster."

As for how it's all accomplished with the books, the Oblivion domino mastermind provides instructions: "You drop them, carefully a🐈nd꧅ painfully align them. Make sure to save like every second."

As a longtime Elder Scrolls stan, I don't think I'd personally be able to take a crack at it, but I am loving seeing the community's creativity thrive following the remaster's release late last month. Between this and the Twitch streamer who created a real-life 🐈version of the RPG's persuasion minigame, it feels like the dedication and skill of players is unrivaled – and don't even get me started on all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Oblivion Remastered mods, either.

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Let me be more specific – of course, the games allow you to play roles, but generally, the games offer little reason not to do everything in the game. Yet do this, and you will be both the yin and the yang of Cyrodiil. You are the Hero of Kvatch, a legendary daedraslayer who rebuked evil and drove it away from the mortal plane. You are also an absolute bastard, you will commit countless murders as a member of the Dark Brotherhood, steal cultural artifacts as a member of the Thieves Guild, exploit Glarthir, a mentally i🎶ll Elf, and commit many other misdeeds.

Fangs for the memories

The game doesn't care if you do this. Sure, there is a fame/infamy system, with the player accumulating points on each side depending on their deeds, but one does not detract from the other. You can have both high fame and high infamy, and neither really matters all that much. It's not a system that I've ever cared about in🅰 the hundreds of hours that I've poured into the original, and I won't care about it in the remake, either.

This is a problem that The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim shares, too. You will almost always end up with your Dragonborn being pretty morally gray. You may, for example, defeat Alduin but still end up being a v♐ampire who feeds on innocents.

Morality systems are a clumsy way to approximate something as complex as the vast spectrum of human behaviour in video games, but at least they can offer players a guide to follow depending on the type of person that they want to be. It is, I think, one of the ways that Oblivion has aged qu♑ite noticeably.

You may think that the ability to do anything and everything is a nice problem to have, and in some ways, that's true. However, on a broader level, it is a genuine problem. I want my roleplaying games to have roleplaying. A good example of this looks like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout: New Vegas, the Obsidian-developed albatross that Bethesda are fated to carry around their neck for the rest of time. Here, the reputation system isn't global: instead, it's differen𓆏t for the different factions and towns around the Mojave. This system isn't perfect, as🅷 it's quite possible to fudge it and end up with a mixed reputation, but it's definitely a better system.

I'm curious as to whether any modders will add a more in-depth reputation system to the Oblivion remaster. I want my approach to different problems to reflect on the game's other factions. If I am in the Dark Brotherhood, I shouldn't be feted as a hero, even if I end up solving the Oblivion crisis. Call me a cynic, ওbut I don't think that most people would love a serial killer, even if they ended up saving the world from a thorny and fiery metaphysical problem. It's a problem that Skyrim modders solved in its similarly rough system with mods like .

It is, lest we forget, constraints that breed creativity. It's what can make games more rewarding. If you can find a way to get around your poor reputation, or work to redeem yourself, like in Disco Elysium, it can fee𝓡l incredibly rewarding. It's not only satisfying from a story point of view: it also gives you incentives to keep replaying. Going back to Fallout: New Vegas, it's common to hear people talking about different faction runs that they're going to do. Yes Man, NCR, Legion, these are all viable approaches to the game, and that means effectively closing off the others to the player. It's not possible to be all things to all people, and that's one of 🐲its aspects that makes it so compelling.

You could, of course, impose these restrictions on yourself. But when Oblivion's story requires you to be a world-saving hero, you're🔴 still going to have to compromise on your vision if you want to complete the main quest and do a bunch of side content. It's not something that the remaster could have easily fixed, so I'm not blaming Bethesda for overlooking it. However, given how the game has gripped gamers' attention over the last couple of weeks, I'm sure we're going to see some mods that will become absolutely legendary in terms of improving the game's rougher edges, and I can't wait to see them. Until then, I'd urge you to overloo🍰k this and enjoy being both the zenith and the nadir of heroism.

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Viccytrix shared what can only be seen as an immense accomplishment to Reddit: a scree⛦nshot of their Oblivion Remastered rap sheet, and I'm honestly in awe. "I just spent 19 years in Jail. Yo is the Oblivion ✨Crisis still going on or ... ?" reads the caption. Coincidentally, that's the exact amount of years it took Bethesda to remaster the original Oblivion from 2006.

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As a certified goody two-shoes, I have no idea what someone would have to do to earn almost two decades in jail, but thankfully the stats are included here. Viccytrix managed to wrack up a 698,040 bounty, climb up to a staggering 1,401 Infamy, and serve 6,990 consecutive days in prison for stealing 2,906 items, assaulting 45 citizens of Cyrodiil, murder🃏ing a an actually rather modest seven people, and stealing seven horses. I'm no investigator, but the criminal seems to have a clear MO: kill target and ride off with their horse.

In a , Viccytrix confirmed that the ultimate price paid for their crimes, beyond what I can only assume was a very long loading screen, was the loss of "a few" skill levels, not to mention whatever ungodly amount of stolen goods they h🍃ad in their inventory. In canon, they may well have just waited out the Oblivion Crisis in jail, but the real-world consequences are meager enough that I'm tempted to abandon my virtuous path and indulge my impulses here and there.

Oblivion Remastered subreddit bans "Sexy Flame Atronach" because moderators "cannot take any more" thirstposting: "Divines forgive us"

Moderators overseeing the Oblivion Remastered community reveal as much in a hilariously unsurprising new they aptly dub "no mor🍨e low effort 'Sexy Flame Atronach' posts." The thirstposting, it seems🅠, has simply become too much.

"Halt! We cannot take any more Sexy Fꦏlam𝔉e Atronach posts," exclaim the subreddit's mods. "Going forward these low effort posts will be removed. Divines forgive us."

Attached to the mods' thread is a collage featuring😼 various screenshots from the subreddit – and yes, they're all of flame atronachs in some… interesting positions. Over the top of the collage stands an Oblivion guard holding a massive clock, signifying that it is indeed time for fans of the remaster to stop hornyposting in the community. As expected, the comments are just as amusing as the mods' pleas for an end🎶 to the lusting.

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One person jokingly asks, "So high effort Sexy Flame Atronach posts will still be allowed?" Another jes🦄ts that it's "finally, spider Daedra's time to shine!"

Elsewhere, someone adds a similar question: "How bout the spriggans? Quite cheeked up as w꧑ell. Or so I've heard." There's no telling whether or not some of these other shapely, if you will, creatures will take the baton from flame atronachs as the subreddit's new NSFW icons just yet.

As a longtime Elder Scrolls fan myself, however, I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see an uptick in spriggan-related posts. For any especially disappointed stans, though, there are still plenty of avenues for flame atronac♏h shenanigans.

While Bethesda declared that officially, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"mods are not supported" for Oblivion Remastered, there are 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:plenty of mods already – many of which are geared toward *cough* fans *cough* of the fiery summons.

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Rebecca Heineman, one of Interplay's co-foun𓆏ders, tried to correct the record by noting that t💜he Fallout source code was never lost and that she, in fact, had a copy of it – a fact the internet misinterpreted as "Rebecca Heineman has saved the Fallout source code," which is itself not exactly the truth.

"Truth be told, [the Fallout source code] was never lost," Heineman explained in a , "and I'm not the sole person who has it. There's at least five people that have it. I know this because I spokꦿe to Tim Cain about this."

Heineman left Interplay we🐲ll before the release of 𝐆Fallout, and eventually started working with a company called MacPlay, which was developing ports of Windows games to Macintosh at the time. Among the titles they had signed were Mac ports of Fallout 1 and 2.

"Since we were going to publish Fallout for MacPlay,🧸" Heineman said, "I got the source code, archived it, did a Mac port, released the game, archived the Mac source as well, and then moved on."

Heineman said she had been archiving source c😼ode she had access to since he💙r Interplay days, since she knew the company itself was "definitely not doing that."

Now, Heineman has and is once again working on a port of the original Fallout games for Mac – this time, to modern versions of MacOS. But she also has an explicit note for fans: "Don't look for a remaster. We will probably release them🍸 in their existing versions on ♉the Mac at first."

Heineman does say that if the team were to "somehow convince Bethe🎃sda to do a remaster," then Cain "will be on board to help us out," but the idea of a Fallout remaster is very much a "pie in the sky" dream for now.

While it's unclear whether Bethesda, the current owner of the Fallout IP, has a copy of the Fallout source code itself, it ♑does own the rights to it. "If I do get permission from Bethesda to release the source code, I will do so," Heineman said.

The original point of Cain's video was about the challenges facing game preservation, and Interplay is a pretty strong example𒈔 of those roadblocks. Heineman reiterates Cain's assertion that Interplay management – which, despite being a co-founder, Heineman herself was not part of – ordered employees to destroy whatever development materials they had access to as part of a non-compete agreement in their contracts.

Clearly, even besides Heineman herself, who got hold of the Falloꦏut source code through an external contract with Int🅰erplay, some other employees must have ignored that order, given that a half-dozen people are known to still have the code.

Game publishers often haven't been interested in preserving their own work, and the long-standing advice from Video Game History Foundation founder Frank Cifaldi to developers ♈invested in preservation has always been

"Game preservation is only happening because people who still had it on their hard drives never deleted it, and are now coming forward," Heineman said, asking for those who do still have access to otherwise lost source code to so she✤ can help preserve it.

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As highlighted by Reddit user purpleturtlehurtler, you, too, can become ridiculously agile to the point where you can soar across the world by simply jumping. Just take a look at it in action below – the player leaps off the top of a mountain with such momentum 💃tha🌃t they make it near the edge of the water around the Imperial City.

After that, they keep it going, bouncing straight into and across the water, flying forward and bouncing across the surface like a skipping stone thanks to their boosted🅷 Acrobatics (more on that later). Every t▨ime they return to land, you can see their poor High Elf's legs seemingly struggle to keep up with the pace at which they're traveling, almost as if they're on the verge of tripping over with every step.

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Needless to say, it looks like a ridiculously fun way of getting around the map, and ൲purpleturtlehurtler has shared everything you need to know to replicate the set-up and try it yourself. First, you'll want to become a magic, before cooking up a cocktail of Fortify spells.

Specifically, 🐲you'll want to "Fortify Willpower, Intelligence, and Magicka," five times, at "maximum magnitude and duration." Do all that within a minute, and then "Fortify Speed, Acrobatics, and Athletics" – again, five times each to that same maximum 🌄duration and magnitude. "Quicksave, then fly," .

They elaborate a little more on this, noting that with your Fortify spells, you should "label every duplicate with a +1 or something to keep them clustered and in order. You may want to make smaller Willpower and Intelligence fortification spells to ramp up to the bigger ones if you don't🍌 have base 522 Magicka at the least."

Fu𝐆rthermore, they add: "You can combine those master level spell effects to make spells that cost 1044 or higher, but that's where the Intelligence and Magic🐬ka fortifications come in."

A of their High Elf shows that they're able to get their Magicka all the way up ༒to 1,994, while their Speed, Acrobatics, and Agility are all fortified by 475 points, making for an incredibly nimble character (temporarily, at least).

Speaking of moving quickly, a different Oblivion Remastered player recently blasted through the "murder mansion" quest in just 8.75 seconds, using only his fists and leaving no witnesses. I imagine he could haveꦫ pulled it off even faster by using purpleturtlehurtler's spell concoction first, though.

Oblivion Remastered lets you wipe out entire taverns of NPCs with ease, and I don't know how I missed this playing the original RPG for 19 years.

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered – Ultimate Engine🐬 Tweaks mod was launched by Nexus Mods user P40L0X on the remastered RPG's release date, offering tweaks to Unreal Engine's .ini text file "with the goal to remove most stutters, improve performance and stability, decrease input lat❀ency, improve picture clarity. All with no visual loss."

With over 650,000 downloads to date, it's safe to say꧋ that the mod is a popular one, and its is home to many RPG fans full of prai𒁃se.

"I was about to crash out because how bad the game performance was. 🅷Then I searched for a fix and found this mod. Totally made my day! My fps went from 40 to 70-100," one wri✱tes.

"Gain🌠ed almost 10fps outdoors and all the stuttering is gone," says another, while one user adds: "Uhm, what the hell! I went from 60fps on High Preset around Waynon Priory to 90-110fps on the same location. Wizardry!!"

Despite this, however, a recent test from Digital Foundry suggested that its improvements might not be so drastic. Comparing how Oblivion Remastered runs using the mod in a side-by-side test with a separate "uncompressor" mod (which 🍰also aims to reduce stuttering, but technology editorꦰ Richard Leadbetter argues wasn't "really doing much, if anything"), video producer Alex Battaglia claims that it "runs the same."

Battaglia points to the🌞 footage, saying "it's like a mirror run. It's almost the exact same, and it runs a little worse in the beginning [with the .ini mod], hilariously enough.

"So I'm going to say that this mod, and these style of mods, I've always thought they did nothing and I didn't want to test them because I couldn't imagine them doing anything, I just rationalized it in my brain. But after tes🌞ting it A/B, and I did multiple runs of this by the way, I just don't have them put up because there's no reason to do it, but it runs the same."

Respondinꦜg to this on Nexus Mods, modder P40L0X suggests that "DF didn't test v3.1 but probably v2.1 or v3.0 (which had VRAM leaks,﷽ other problems)," so it's worth noting that there's a chance that the outlet might not have used the purported best version.

The modder later adds: "I can't stress enough to try it by yourself before making YOUR ju🌳dgment about it and not taking for granted someone else experience (positive or negative). The only thinಌg I kindly ask is to report here how it went, and that's all. And possibly avoid to trash talk without even trying [the mod] or even being interested in it."

After so many positive reviews, could the mod's apparent performance boosts really be the result of a placebo effect? The modder doesn't think so, but the tests suggest otherwise. It's worth noting that the mod is free to d▨ownload, so it costs nothing to try, but as it stands, Battaglia is convinced that the version tested "doesn't do anything."

Oblivion Remastered player clears the RPG's Dark Brotherhood "murder mansion" quest in 8.75 seconds using only his fists, leaving no witnesses.

During a recent stream, Criken manages to clear the quest in under 10 seconds – using fists only and leaving no witnesses behind. If you've never played through Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood questline, it involves killing five NPCs attending what t🧔hey thought was just a treasure-hunting party in Summitmist Manor. To get the full reward, including the Night Mother's Blessing bonus, one has to ensure they're not spotted killing anyone.

Criken doesn't struggle to kill the party attendees, nor does he find it difficult to remain stealthy while doing so. In fact, the streamer quickly attacks each NPC from behind while sneaking for extra damage, managing to slay them all in just 8.75 seconds. A on his social media highlights the hilariously quick feat, and it almost feels like watching a Tavern Brawler from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 in non-turn-based combat.

Th🌞e streamer aptly dubs his new Oblivion Remastered challenge a "murder mansion speedrun completed in 8.75 seconds [no witnesses, fist only, any%]."

It's not the first time Criken has engaged in such Elder Scrolls-shaped shenanigans, either. He's also been speedrunning the new remaster's Thieves Guild questline, as showcased in another , and yes, he's using the same speedy Khajiit from the Dark Brotherhood run. If you want to try it yourself, then here's how to start t💮he Dark Brotherhood questlౠine in Oblivion Remastered.

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You don't need magic or a strong sword to clear a room full of unsuspecting NPCs, after all. You just need an inventory full of poisoned ༺apples and one very sneaky character, it seems. As highlighted in a recent video on from user RedDeadRagdolls, y🌟ou can replace every food and drink-related item in a building, in this case a tavern, with a poisoned apple – then, you just have to sit back and watch the chaos unfold.

This requires every edible item to have been removed, however, including those on an NPC's person, meaning you might have to pickpocket while you're at it. Once all of the available food has been cleared and replaced by poisoned apples, people will start dropping dead one by one aꦗnd be none the wiser. It's an amusing sight to behold – two NPCs talking, and one suddenly dies, so the other moves on to converse with others.

The cycle continues from there, and as hilarious as it all is, I'm only mad I never knew I could do this myself in nearly two decades of playing the original Oblivion. The Purification quest that comes up during the Dark Brotherhood storyline lets you employ a similar tactic to kill your targets, but it's one of those tricks you might no🃏t ever think to use outside of game-driven situations – or, at least, I certainly never did myself.

It seems I'm not alone in this, either. Comments under RedDeadRagdolls' vidౠeo prove as much, with one person exclaiming that they 🧜"didn't even know one could do this" and calling the YouTuber an "evil genius" for figuring it out. Another says it's "crazy to see all the ideas I saw in YouTube Oblivion videos back in 2008-09 being done again 16 odd years later in the remaster," confirming the tactic has indeed been around since the OG game.

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That'🍷s precisely what Twitch streamer Blurbs has done, revealing his ungodly recreation in a recent online . "I remade the Oblivion Remaster persuasion minigame from scratch and connected it to Twitch Chat," he writes. "Now they can try to convince me to do what they want."

Blurbs, who has previously engaged in some similar shenanigans with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Skyrim and Red Dead Redemption 2, isn't so sure this was a good idea, though. "But it makes me look 🐟like a damn serial killer," admits the streamer, asking "why the fuck did I make this?"

Attached to his post is a clip of the IRL take on the m😼inigame in action, and it's precisely as horrifying and hilarious as he makes it sound. In the video, Blurbs reacts to the different persuasion options much like an NPC in Oblivion Remastered would, using their awkward dialogue and facial expressions to match the approval rating.

"I don't believe any of that," exclaims Blurbs as the "Boast" option is chosen. "Eh, I've heard it before," he shrugs when the "Admire" toggle is triggere🥃d. Then, the persuasion wheel turns to "Coer😼ce," prompting the streamer to shift in tone: "Oh no, stop, don't."

It's an amusing, and admittedly, slightly creepy, take on Oblivion Remastered's own persuasion minigame, and it's sure to be all the more chaotic with Twitch view🌱ers in control.

The chaos likely won't end here, either. Oblivion Remastered has only been out for a couple of weeks now, so the potential for more tomfoolery is high. Knowing Blurbs, I'm expecting to see an NPC voiceover situation akin to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:his adventures in oth🐼er 💛Elder Scrolls games.

Aside from the streamer's own fun projects, however, there's bound to be all sorts of mayhem fit for Sheogorath himself thanks to the ever-growing list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Oblivion Remastered mods.

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One of the big things Bethesda games have become associated with is a metric ton of bugs that the community eventually takes upon themselves to fix. All of the Fallout and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elder Scrolls games have a litany of community mods, and Starfield is no different, with the members of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Starfield Community Patch group forming over 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a year before the game would eventually launch.

However, as we all know by now, Starfield didn't entirely live up to the hopes and dreams of some Bethesda fans; while many loved it (as seen in our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GamesRadar+ review), a lot of the fanbase was let down by the latest effort, especially since it was the studio's first game since 2015's Fallout 4✃. And sadly, that extends to the modding community.

In a post on the Starfield Modding , Starfield Community Patch modder Pickysaurus sends a message to players who had noticed that the mod hasn't been updated since last September. The user announces that the team is looking for modders who want to take the reins from them, as the current creators don't have the "time or motivation to curate the patch anymore."

While Pickysaurus personally puts his absence down to a new puppy, which has reduced his gaming time, the modder explains, "other members of the team have found themselves disenchanted with the game for various reasons - lack of replay-ability, the paid modding situation, moved on to playing new games, etc."

Although they aren't w🦹orking on the mod, Pickysaurus says they are still going to maintain the website, but admits, "If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project and direct users to Arthmoor's patch going forwards," in reference to the .

It took Oblivion Remastered a single week to become the third best-selling game of 2025 behind Assassin's Creed Shadows and Monster Hunter Wilds.

If you're the type of person who values a solid start in an RPG above all, then you might want to acquaint yourself with Oblivion: Remastered's best items. Some of these, including the iconic Umbra longsword and its accompanying Ebony Armor set, are obtainable early on in the game. All you have to do ꦏonce you've left the opening act's sewers is enter Vindasel, an Ayleid Ruin just southwest of the Imperial City Waterfront.

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When you reach Umbra, the Bosmer whose armor and weapon you're after, simply hit her and drag her into the city, then watch the guards tear through her for you. You can then loot her corpse for the coveted Umbra's Ebony Armor and, of course, her enchanted sword.

Similarly, you can also snag the light Brusef Amelion armor set as soon as you embark on your journey through Cyrodiil – all you have to do is locate the Amelion Tomb. The tomb, sitting just north of Leyawiin, contains Brusef Amelion's full set of armor split into different chambers, as well as his sword and shield.

Unlike the Umbra set, Brusef Amelion's armor doesn't scale according to your level – but the RPG's pesky scaling system doesn't have to mean you need to wait to grab both. The scaling, which permanently locks some gear's stats to the level you're at and is so infamous that game designer Bruce Nesmith himself said 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:꧙it "was a mistake" eve๊ntually fixed in Skyrim, can be circumvented.

Thankfully, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:there's already a mod that reworks the scaling to better match the convenience of Skyrim's own system. Download it, and you'll find the fully leveled version of Umbra's gear and weapon at the beginning of the game. It's a quick and easy workaround (PC only, though – sorry, console players). With❀out the mod, you'll be better off waiting to hit at least level 15 before entering Vindasel to get the armor and sword with their maximum stats.

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This is according to Circana gaming analyst Mat Piscatella (thanks, ), going by dollar sales fro🌊m Oblivion Remastered's first week 𝕴on the market.

"After just one week in market (w/e 4.26) Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is already the 3rd best-selling game of 2025 in the US ($ sales) trailing only 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Monster Hunter: Wilds and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed Shadows," Piscatella said on .

Unsurprisingly, it was also the best-selling game of that week. Although maybe that isn't such a huge surprise with the acclaimed and 澳洲幸运5开奖号ꦅ码历史查询:fast-selling JRPGꦚ Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 releasing during the same week.

In another , Piscatella said Oblivion Remastered "took the top spot on Steam US" for total weekly active users during the week that ended April 26. It took the second sp💫ot in that same category on Steam Canada, and on Xbox it was fourth, and on PlayStation it was 15th.

Of course, if this was 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elder Scrolls 6 we're talking about, this data would be so insignificant that I probably wouldn't even be writing a story about it. Of course the𝐆 new Elder Scrolls game is one of the year's best-selling games, I'd be thinking.

But this game came out in 2006. The fact that a simple, albeit well-made, remaster is catapulting to the list of best-selling games of the year at such a rapid pace really is testament to t♛he Elder Scrolls series' longevity.

This Oblivion Remastered Easter egg is forcing me to confront a difficult truth about early 2010s meme culture: It was never funny, actually.

I bear absolutely no ill will to my friends over at for bringing this Oblivion Remastered Easter egg, and by proxy a terrible 2011 meme, to my attention. I entirely blame early 2010s absurdist Millennial humor, whichꦯ I distinctly remember fake-laughing to many, many times in college. Remember ? ? I s﷽lot the 2011 video Potion Seller in the same category.

I'm sorry, my Gen-Z readers, b🥀ut for the sake of this story I'm trying to write, let's take a trip back to 2011 and watch this thing:

I'll proudly admit I hadn't seen this video until just now, or if I had seen it before I couldn't remember it. Maybe that's why it doesn't appeal to me at all; I'm not watching it through a lens of nostalgia harkening back to hazy, Rolling Rock-fueled parties where I'm being forced to watch a video I can't hear because someone just lost a game of beer pong and flipped the table over. Oh, god.

To be fair, the Potion Seller meme is one of the more creative examples of that era's very distinct style of humor, but it's still unmistakably its time, and while I don't think today's memes are any ꧃better, I still don't want to go back.

Anyway, the whole reason I'm bringing this up is b🌟ecause Oblivion Remastered seems to have a reference to Potion Seller. Twitch streamer found a new consoꦍle command called "Altar.Player.PotionSellerGiveMeYourStrongestPotions," which is on the nose enough, but its description further reads:

"Powers the player up with the means of def👍eating the Romans coming to conquer the last free village of Gaul. 'Have you heard of my potions? …My potions are too strong for you, traveller.'"

Yeah, that's definitely a Potion Seller East꧂er egg, and I'll admit, aꦜ pretty apt one considering the character in the meme is clearly parodying Elder Scrolls NPCs.

Once again, well played Todd.

Speaking of, 19 years later, Todd Howard is still a secret NPC in Oblivion Remastered, and he'll call you a bastard if you piss him off.

Well, from the perspective of the Skyblivion team, who've been remaking Oblivion in Skyrim since 2012, you'd think there'd be a lot of things to not like. But from the outset, the Skyblivion devs haven't only remained steadfas🍒t in their commitment to their own project, but also vocally and enthusiastically supportive of the official remaster, and likewise, Bethesda has shown no shortage of love to the modders, giving the whole team Oblivion Remastered keys and makingᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ clear they have no intention of shut🍒ting down the project.

It's been a lovely thing to witness in a turbulent time for the industry, and I'm just here to sha꧃re yet another example of that reciprocal respe🐷ct.

In a new Bethesda Game Studios Developer Spotlight featuring development lead Dan Lee, Skyblivion once again gets its flowers. "Even though I wor𓄧ked on Oblivion: Remast꧋ered, I'm still excited for Skyblivion," says Lee.

"I think what they're doing𓄧 is very special, and I'm excited to see their interpretation of what we've done in the past, and I think it's a great year for Oblivion fans."

I don't really have a whole lot to add here besides, keep it up, S♕kyblivion devs and Bethesda Game Studios. Y'all are taking your curren🥀t spotlight and using it demonstrate the precise way game devs and modders should interact with each other.

With The Elder Scrolls 6 still MIA, Oblivion Remastered proves why remakes and remasters are the greatest tricks in the game developer handbook.

It's been something of a foregone conclusion that, if GTA 6 was to release in 2025, it would be poised to sweep all ཧof the big awards shows this year, perhaps including our own Golden Joysticks. Even in a year already jam-packed with acclaimed releases like Split Fiction, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Monster Hunter Wilds, and more, GTA 6 was all but destined to be a frontrunner.

But not anymore! With GTA 6 out of the way, the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best games of 2025 can all compete with each other for the top s🎃pot on a more even-looking playing field, and one Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 star, Hans Capon actor Luke Dale, is feeling optimistic.

"WE’RE IN 🦩WITH A SHOT! GOTY!," he wrote on Twitter with a KCD2 hashtag, with his fingers crossed for "Kingdom Come:♈ Deliverance 2 GOTY 2025."

Although I've yet to see any widespread sentiment spreading acros🅘s game dev world, I'd be surprised if this wasn't the third or fourth thing a lot of devs thought after hearing the news of GTA 6's delay. Dale is just saying the quiet part out loud.

I mean, it's not like it's some great 🐽tragedy that a game got delayed, but considering so many people are probably reeling with disappointment right now, it might not be🍸 a terribly popular opinion to share on main today, even as other developers and publishers hungrily eye the vacuum created in the second half of 2025.

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Despite launching dangerously close to Oblivion Remastered's orbit, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been met with near universal acclaim and remarkably strong sales, 澳洲🃏幸运5开奖号码历史查询:shifting a million copies in j🧔ust three days. Naturally, Kepler is happy with the game's reception, with senior portfolio manager Matt Handrahan telling he was nev൲er worried it would conflict too much with a new Elder Scrolls release.

"We always knew that Expedition 33 had a very specific identity," Handrahan said. "When I was in the press, I saw the Western-style RPG and the Japanese-style RPG as having quite different appeals and 🐬audiences. I knew 𓂃plenty of people that would play an Elder Scrolls game that wouldn't necessarily play Final Fantasy and vice versa."

The JRPG nerds here at GamesRadar+, a contingent I'm proud to align myself with, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史𝕴查询:have been hyping up Clair Obꩲscur for months, long bꦅefore we had any (concrete) inclination that Oblivion Remastereꦏd was about to be a thing.

Handrahan said that organic build-up of interest, not to mention its $50 price tag and🐬 availability on Game Pass, helped to keep Clair Obscur from being swallowed by Oblivion𒆙 Remastered.

"By the 𝔉time that we rolled around, we had momentum of our own and we felt pretty confident that we could stand beside it," he said.

"We knew we would have a lot of interest around the game. We were confident in that. And it🥂 went as well as it possibly could have done in our🙈 eyes. And, actually, proximity to Oblivion didn't seem to harm us at all. In many ways, I think it just drew attention to quality RPGs that week and everybody was thinking and talking about the genre."

The fact that everyone does seem to be talking about Clair Obscur, and specifically about how good it is, could be part of what's pushing Kepler and Sandfall to invest in post-launch content, as one the game's lead writers recently suggested there's a good cha♌nce for DLC due to the game's glowing receptioꦜn.

10 Games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that helped influence its timing-focused turn-based battles.

Bruce Nesmith – who has worked on everything at Bethesda from F൩allout 3 to Starfield – says segmented areas and loading screens are essential to how Bethesda makes RPGs as it allows fo🐻r the tracking of things like item placement in an area and other details that remain long after you tootle off.

"Everybody who complains about them assumes that it's done because we're lazy or we don't want to follow the modern thinking on stuff," Nesmith tells . "The reality is the Bet🎃hesda games are so detailed and so graphics intensive… you just can't have both present at the same time."

It's not for a lack of trying, though. Nesmith shares that Bethesdꦬa has tried to make its RPGs more seamless, but, well, it hasn't worked. The studio faces various issues that ultimately make each game worse to play.

"I can't have the interiors of all these places loaded at the same time as the exteriors. That's just not an option," he says. "And all the fancy tricks for s🎶treaming and loading and all that, yౠou end up with hitching. So you're actually better off stopping the game briefly, doing a loading screen, and then continuing on.

"If you make a game that has less going on, it's a tighter experience and not a [true] open-world experience. So it's just one of those necessary evils, as it were, it's not that anybody at Bethesda ever wanted to𝓀 do it. We just didn't have🔜 a choice, really, if the game was going to have the experience we wanted it to have."

So there you have it – loading screens are one of 'em Bethesda quirks you may have to live with a while longer. Thankfully, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:at least when it comes to Oblivioꩲn Remastered, players don't mind the odd quirk.

Bethesda giving out Oblivion Remastered keys to Skyblivion modders is "exactly what I'd like to see more of," says CEO of retro remaster studio as devs reflect on game preservation.

Skyblivion – the fan-made project that set out to rebuild Oblivion in Skyrim's engine – has been a work-in-progress for 13 years. Although it could be considered a rival for the official game, it was revealed last week that Bethesda had provided the entire mod team with keys for Oblivion Remastered, an🍬d "made it clear that they have no♋ intention of shutting down our project."

Speaking to in an interview about game preservation, Stephen Kick, CEO of Nightdive Studios, which has produced remasters for loads of older games including Doom 1 and 2, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Thing, and more, is very complimentary of Bethe✤sda's recent gesture.

In general, he belie🍸ves that when it comes to pre🎉servation, devs and publishers should work closely with the fans who "have done what they can with whatever limited resources they have to make them accessible again," and this case is clearly a positive example of the community being embraced.

"I think that's exactly what ▨I'd like to see more of, and that's something that we do extensively on the Nightdive side," he says of Bethesda giving the Skyblivion team copies of the official remaster.

"Whenever we have an opportunity to do a 𒉰new game, the first thing we do is go and seek out the community that's made it playable to this point, and either consult with them, contract them, or, in some cases, even hire some of those te🉐am members," he continues.

While less about game preservation, Bethesda took a somewhat similar approach with the massive fan-made Fallout: London expansion mod for Fallout 4, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:actually hiring two of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:developers behind it. The studio clearly keeps close tabs on fan projeꦑcts like this, and knows their worth, too.

In the case of Skyblivion, its lead developer, Rebelzize, previously told GamesRadar+ that the release of Oblivion Remastered "changes nothing about our plans," with him feeling that the "project has already paid off tenfold." Skyblivion is still eyeing up a launchও later this year, with Rebelzize adding: "We will keep working on bug fixes 💫and the DLC after the release."

If you've been playing Bethesda's remastered RPG, be sure to check out our guide to Oblivion Remastered's skill system.

For example, the charred remains of Anakin Skywalker can be found in both Oblivion and Oblivion Remastered in a reference to his fight Obi-Wan in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, while the addition of𓃲 Skyrim's Throat of the World is obviously new with the remaster.

💯My favorite, however, falls into the former camp of Easter eggs that were found in the original game and have been preserved and touched up in the remaster. Hidden in a secret test room only accessible by console commands, an NPC with voice lines performed by Bethesda's Todd Howard can be found hanging out in a small brick house, and you can talk to him, piss him off, and even make him fall in love with you.

According to our tech savvy pals at , to access Todd Howard's house in Oblivion Remastered you'll want to first, save your game. Then, open console by hitting the ~ key, and then type: coc toddtest into the input bar. Hit enter and you'll be transported to a small house with an NPC named Alban Corinis. Interact with him and you'll be greeted by a voice that definitely isn't Todd H🦂oward's, who will say:

"I knew one day someone with unyielding virtue w🍨ould heed my words and speed my release. You risked much to perform such a selfless act."

Click past that and you'll be presented with options representing NPC behavior: Angry, Fear, Happy, Neutral, Sad, and Surprise. Select any of ♓those and you'll hear Todd Howard expressing those different emotions in very often amusing ways.

As PC Gamer demonstrates, you can piss Todd Howard off by 💎clicking "Angry" continually until his disposition is below 20, then hitting "Neutral" again, and he'll put you in your place. "You are indeed a bastard," he'll say.

If he hurts your feelings, don't worry, Todd Howard's pretty easy to win over again. Just hit the "Happy" prompt over and over until you get his Disposition over 90, and he'll fall head over heels for you and say in a dulcet tone, "I can'෴t recall ever loving moments, like this moment, with you."

The acting is laughable, but that's not a shot at Howard; he probably wasn't giving his best performance since the lines were meant for testing purposes only. Regardless, of all of the Easter eggs in Oblivion Remastered, my hands-down fa𒁏vorite is seducing Todd Howard... sorry, Todd Howard.

I've spent 20 hours playing Oblivion Remastered as an evil tourist, and may have accidentally found the best way to play Bethesda's liveliest RPG.

In one room, a few dozen Bethesda developers watch their younger selves work on what would become one of the best-selling RPGs of all time. Todd 🔯Howard, who served as executive producer on the game, warns the team, "this is gonna be really f**king awkward watching this."

"I'm wearing the same necklace right now," the 42nd p𓃲erson hired by the company shouts as they see their younger self describing how to add trees and streets to the cityscapes of Cyro♔diil.

One developer says: "It felt like a really small, tight team. I mean it wasn't a whole lot more than the number of folks sitting in here now, that was the whole company." It's wild to think about how small video game companies used to b൲e.

Looking back at their younger selves and how they used to work, one dev says: "Watching [the documentary] feels like we were away at summer camp. A really cool, stressful, summer camp. We didn't know we were about to ship Fallout 3, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Skyrim, and Fallout 4."

"I remember all the struggles we went through making it," says another. One dev thinks "we hit a core trﷺuth: people want to explore." Simply wandering around the worlds of Skyrim and Fallout 3 are some of my favorite things to do in those games.

After the documentary ends, Howard addresses us ꦫand his🐽 team. "It was as awkward as I thought. In so many ways, when I see it and look in the room, it feels the same."

He also says: "It was impossibly hard to do what we ﷽wanted to do. The reward you feel emotionally when you do something really, really hard with a group of people, you hold onto it 20 years later and we'll be holding onto it for 20 more."

With so much news of layoffs, it's🌱⛦ nice to see so many of the same developers at the company almost 20 years later. Here's hoping they can all make games together for another 20 more.

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But, but – I'm getting weaker… the developer is taunting me again, outdoing itself with a new $1,900 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Doom: The Dark Ages b🙈undle that doesn't even include a copy of the game.

Buy, it whispers, buy!

But you'll have to opt for the $💫2,000 version of the bundle instead if you really want a game code, though I don't know why you would.

Who needs a copy of the newest installment of an iconic FPS franchise when you could simply have a limited edition ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card, which und🔴oubtedly makes up the bulk of this Doom bundle's weighty price tag?

On its own, the RTX 5080 wi🌄ll run you about $1,800 at most retailers. The extra $200 of Bethesda's most expensive, $2,000 bundle is accounted for by a mouse pad, a yellow keycard replica, one cotton t-shirt, and a Steam Premium Edition 🌟code – which is $100 on its own.

It seems that everythin💯g in the bundle costs pretty much the same as it would if you'd purchased it all individually, though the special RTX 5080 also comes in army green and emblazoned with the Doomslayꦺer looking awesome. So that's really awesome.

As Oblivion Remastered introduces new fans to Bethesda's iconic 2006 RPG, ex-Elder Scrolls dev admits the level scaling system "was a mistake" eventually fixed in Skyrim.

Sharing his thoughts on the turn-based banger, Gaider, who was the mastermind behind the Dragon Age setting himself, reveals how he feels about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in a new online . "I've been playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and wow... so far, it's kind of toꦕ JRPGs what Baldur's Gate 3 was to CRPGs," he writes. "It's beautiful and polished and well-written, and the turn-based co🌱mbat is so fun!"

Gaider concludes his praise with a little joke, saying he "cannot believe I *just* discovered what you need Lumina points꧙ for" – a reference to abilities in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. In response to a fan's reply regarding the game's "amazing tonal range," he further commends Sandfall Interactive for its storytelling. "To me, that's the way to do it. In order for the lows to have meaning, you need the highs. Too much of either an𓂃d it would become unbearable."

The former Dragon Age writer isn't alone in thinking so highly of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, either. It's proving to be quite the hit on platforms like Steam, overtaking the likes of 澳洲▨幸运5开奖号码历史查询:recent JRPG gems such as Meꩲtaphor: ReFantazio in player count, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:selling over 500,000 copies in just one day. Other developers, including the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 publis🔯hing director and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Palworld's community manager, have also spoken about it.

Following the release of 澳洲幸运5开奖꧒号码历史查询:The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered just last week, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Bethesda Game Studios cheered Sandfall Interactive on as well when fans worried th🎐♈e remake would drown out Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's own launch. "We can't wait to play," wrote Bethesda in a celebratory post to which Kepler Int♛eractive responded with a plate of sweet rolls, so it's safe to say Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been on ever🅺yone's mind.

Hopping in to play the new RPG? Here are our best 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 tips to read before diving in.

Speaking in a recent interview with , Nesmith calls Bethesda and partner studio behind the remaster, Virtuos Games, "brave" for working to improve the original RPG's own controversial systems, including its leveling and world scaling. The former Oblivion dev, who also worked on various Bethesda projects like Skyrim and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Starfield, explains that changes have made the remaster "more playable" for modern audience🌠s.

"They actually went ahead and changed the game design underneath… some of theꦜ systems design," says Nesmith. "That's pretty much unheard of in a remaster because the whole idea is that they want that old experience, so I consider that to be a very brave thing and [it will] probably help the Oblivion remaster to be significantly more popular – assuming they have done what they said and bring it to a more modern understanding of things, that's going to make the game more playable for modern sensibilities."

While the OG Oblivion's leveling system wasn't entirely changed in the remaster, as proven by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历🐽史查询:mods addressing the "disappointing" me🌃chanic, it's a bit better. For instance, in the newer RPG, all skills give experience points that count toward player leveling – no more need for min-maxing 🌳leveling, as the game provides a comfortable 12𓃲 points to divide up as one pleases between the attributes.

Player leveling isn't the only awkward feature of Oblivion's overall scaling system, though – the world as a whole and any rewards earned also scale depending on a person's level. For example, a lower-level player might earn d𒁏ifferent rewards for doing the same task. Nesmith admits that this design choice, which he played an important role in crafting, "was a mistake" – one that was only truly fixed with Skyrim, years after Oblivion's release in 2011.

"I had a veryꩲ substantial hand and voice in both leveling systems," describes the dev. "The nuts and bolts work, the mathematical mechanics, that was my work, and I'm intimately familiar with how both of those things work. I think the w🔥orld leveling with you was a mistake, and that's proven out by the fact it did not happen the same way in Skyrim."

In the fifth Elder Scrolls entry, Nesmith says Bethesda implemented a "much, much better" system 🐽which offers a challenge while avoiding players feeling that leveling up doesn't matter since "'the dungeon went up in levels with me.'"

As a longtime Elder Scrolls fan my𓄧self, I can't say I'm too happy that some of the old leveling system has shimmied its way into the remaster – but as a PC player, I can thankfully rectify Bethesda's persisting early 2000s mistake with mods.

Here's everything you need to know about 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Elder Scrolls 6 after replaying Oblivion.

This probably isn't the first you've heard of Tamriel Rebuilt — it's been in the works for more than 22 years, after all. It's impossible to go over everything it adds, expands, and updates in a timely, 🀅comprehensive fashion, but essentially its main 𝄹goal is to make the entire Morrowind province playable in-game, instead of the relatively small sliver you get to explore in The Elder Scrolls 3.

For example, major cities like Old Ebonheart, Port Telvannis, Firewatch, and Necrom, none o⭕f which are explorable in vanilla Morrowind, are part of the in-game playable map thanks to Tamriel Rebuilt. The modder𝓰s at TamrielRebuiltTeam say their modded version of Morrowind has a playable landmass that's "larger in size than The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion."

The mod's upcoming update, titled Grasping Fortune and billed as "the big༺gest expansion from Tamriel Rebuilt ever," centers around the Hlaalu capital of Narsis, which the modders say is Morrowind's second biggest city and "a contender for the largest fully realized, custom-made city in an Elder Scrolls game ever."

"Narsis has long been a bit of a holy grail for Tamriel Rebuilt, ever since Prometheus, a talented early level designer, first designed a monumental iteration of it in 2004," says mod au𒀰thor Sultan of Rum. "Beset by technical and conceptual issuꦉes, the city has been remade three times over the course of two decades, but is now finally well on its way to release."

You can (and should) read about the rich history of Narsis in the official Grasping Fortune update l꧃og . It's genuinely really good stuff if you're an Elder Scrolls lore nerd.

All in all, the Grasping Fortune expansion adds more than 140 new dungeons to pillage and over 270🤡 new quests. It launches on May 1, which frankly doesn't give me nearly enough time to finish my Oblivion Remastered playthrou🌊gh, but hey, it's a good problem to have.

After 8 hours of being hunted by a murderous unicorn in Oblivion Remastered, I'm torn between "we're so back" and "please save me."

It's only been a few days since Oblivion Remastered officially droꦏpped following months of rumors and leaks, but Bethesda has already opened up a channel on its server for fans to leave "suggestions and feedback."

Unsurprisingly, those suggestions range from understandable requests for character customization options mid-game to messages straighꦺt up hoping the remake becomes more "like Skyrim."

One fan writes that they "w꧃ouldn't mind extra spell types like Skyrim's," while another wants a "UI change" to better reflect… you guessed it, one "similar to Skyrim." Elsewhere in the suggestions channel, a player expresꦜses that they'd "like to experience Skyrim's combat system a bit more" – even though it "won't please purists."

Various users call for "romances l🌞ike in Skyrim," while many more hope that a "cleared" tag will be added to the map to signify completed dungeons – "like in Skyrim𝓡," of course.

Quite a few people say they'd like a character editing system akin to Skyrim's own, 🥀with one explaining that "just a ꧒barber would suffice, or even a special flesh sculptor like Skyrim!"

Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim – oh, how we all apparently took you for granted. The greatest irony here is that, when Skyrim was first released, there were a lot of co�ꦉ�nversations about the systems and features lost from Oblivion – ideas that Oblivion Remastered players were thrilled to see again, like meeting an old friend. But there's no denying that Skyrim can feel more modern.

In all seriousness, I agree with pretty much all of these requests as a longtime Elder Scrolls stan myself. While I'm partial to entries like Morrowind thanks to their innovation and, admittedly, nostalgia, Skyrim undeniably introduced quality-of-life features and systems that even Bethesda's new remake simply doesn't. For now, fans can look to the ever-growing plethora of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Oblivion Remastered mods for these.

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One Redditor went to Valenwood but, as reported by , the🌠 area is fairly barren. "I was walking along the Strid River from Skingrad and it turns out you jump across into Valenwood near Kvatch," they explain. "I explored a bit and was surprised to find basically the whole landmass of the map was there, even if not detailed."

They that shows them ♊leaving the Kvatch refugee camp and running to a river to the south, hopping across the water and then scaling a cliff to end up in Valenwood, home of the Bosmer, also known as the Wood Elves. It's mostly just some hills and light ꧑shrubbery, but you can even see the Summerset Isles on the horizon off to the west.

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They also share screenshots of Hammerfell, home of the Redguards, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the rumored setting of The Elder Scrolls 6. "The region seems vast. Much bigger than the Valenwood/Elsweyr area. The landmass stretches way beyond render-distanc🔯e, so who knows how farܫ it goes," they write.

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Other playꦓers have managed to get to Skyrim, although you'd eventually just fall throug🐈h the map and drown in an invisible ocean.

This is still neat because 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:you can see the Throat of the World – the tallest mountain in all of Tamriel and home to the Greybeards – from the Skyrim border in Cyrodil. Maybe that's what the Dragonborn was looking at when they got caught illegally🦹 crossing.

It seems like once you leave Cyrodiil, you can't re💜load any saves from outside of it, so make sure you've got a backup if you want to go exploring, too.

It's good to know the remaster is just as janky as the original.

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There are seven main goblin tribes in the game, each with its own sacred totem staff. If one ends up with a tribe it shouldn't, well, someone's not going to beꦚ happy – the original owners will go searching for it, and can end up fighting with rival tribes in an attempt to get it back. Players see this in action in the Goblin Trouble quest, the side quest that prompted the creation of the entire system.

, Kurt Kuhlmann, the Oblivion quest designer responsible for the goblin wars, explains: "Since I was having to set up a scripted system to get the goblins from one dungeon to periodically attack goblins in another, I figured it wouldn't be a lot more work to make this systemic, so that it would wor🌺k with any goblin tribe 🦄if the player stole their totem."

As you'd expect, implementin꧟g the system wasn't without its difficulties, with one of the main issues centering around "getting the goblins inside the dungeon to be able to come out," since those sorts of areas don't usually load if the players aren't close by. These days, Kuhlm𓆏ann is unsure how he actually overcame this, noting: "I don't remember how I solved that but apparently I did! Probably with some questionable designer hackery."

Perhaps it was because of things like this that, in hindsight, Kuhlmann is "not sure if the part about 'not a lot more work'🍬 was actually true, but it certainly allowed for fun emergent gameplay." Clearly, he's got a lot of passion for this kindไ of thing, as he adds that he "took my opportunities to introduce whatever elements of 'controlled chaos' whenever I could" in more recent Bethesda games, too.

In the OG Oblivion, "there wasn't much else" quite like the goblin wars, and while the quest designer "would have loved to do more of that kind of thing," the team "didn't have any extra time – in fact the opposite," not to mention that "🐻the tools for doing that kind of thing in Oblivion were very primitive."

The whole thing feels very reminiscent of something recently mentioned by former Bethesda developer Nate Purkeypile, who told that "a lot of the great stuff within Skyrim" came from the developers having "quite a bit of freedom to do stuff," even if it "was not on schedule at all." It's this freedom that led to the addition of Blackreach a💦nd the werewolves in the 2011 RPG 🐎– the former coming into existence after "we just kind of did that on the side and put it in."

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The Elder Scrolls Renewal Project has evolved greatly over time since its debut recreation of Morrowind in Oblivion's engine, aptly dubbed Morroblivion, first released in 2010, with both 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Skyblivion and Skywind now standing as the modders' 🦄ong🃏oing feats – two massive projects that aim to faithfully resurrect Bethesda's pre- Elder Scrolls gems in the fifth entry's more modern Creation Engine.

Skyblivion and Skywind have both been in production for well over a decade now, but the hard work 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:should soon pay off as the former has a set release planned for 2025 – and no, th﷽e team behind The Elder Scrolls Renewal Project isn't put off by Bethesda and Virtuos Games' own official remaster of Oblivion at all. Rebelzize, the lead deveꦿloper of Skyblivion, admits as much in a recent interview with GamesRadar+.

According to the Skyblivion mastermind, the fans working on the project have had a "very positive reaction" overall: "We watched the reveal together on a Discord call, a💦ctually, which was pretty fun."

How does Oblivion Remastered affect the Skyblivion team's plans for their project, though? As Rebelzize says, it doesn't, 𝓀really – in fact, The Elder Scrolls Renewal Project's planned 2025 release isn't changing, either.

"For now, it changes nothing about our plans," he explains. "We intend to release it this year still." There's ample space for Skyblivion and Oblivion Remastered to coexist, after all, especially in a world that gives so little to Elder Scrolls stans (okay, maybe I'm projecting a bit myself here, but I yearn for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Elder Scrolls 6). As Rebelzize puts it, "I think there is room for both a rema🍸k🔥e and a remaster" this year.

"We have put a lot of time and effort intꦜo rethinking a lot of aspects of the game, and I feel very confident in what we have put together," describes the Skyblivion lead, going on to say that, regardless of the future, the process has already been rewarding enough. "For me, the project has already paid off tenfold. I've learned a lot from working on it and met a lot of people, some of whom I call close friends. The release now is just a bonus."

The future, however, does look pretty positive, to𒈔o. Once the long-awaited Skyblivion launch is finally upon the Elder Scrolls community, Rebelzize says there'll be more to come from the team: "We will keep working on🦂 bug fixes and the DLC after the release."

Just thinking about playing through Knights of the Nine and The Shivering Isles content again, albeit this time in the same engine employed by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout 4 and Skyrim, sends my heart soaring.

"Other than that," concludes Rebelzize, "[only] time will tell what's happening." Could there be a new project featuring Oblivion Remastered later down the line, then? Who knows – but judging by The Elder Scrolls Renewal Project head's words, anything sounds possible. It's not all that surprising to hear that the team is largely unaffected, aside from sharing in on fans' excitement, by൲ Bethesda's official remaster, either.

Just last week, the developers behind the upcoming fan project shared that "both projects can exist" anꦛd "players are the true winners" with both Oblivion Remastered and Skyblivion dropping the same year. Rebelzize himself also previously stated that the latter recreation "always was a passion project and still is until the end," detailing how the former's existence 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"changes nothing for me" – as he does in our own interview with him.

The Elder Scrolls Renewal Project devs certainly have a point – players are the true winners, indeed. As a longtime fan of the RPG series' iconic fourth entry, I'm thrilled to be replaying it now after Oblivion Remastered, but that doesn't take away from the fact that I'm also looking forward to Skyblivion. It seems like the project's team is enjoying the official remaster as well, as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Bethesda supplied every member ꧋with a keꦺy for the new RPG.

Oblivion Remastered is more than a remaster and "almost needs its own word," says ex-Bethesda dev behind the OG 2006 RPG: "The closest that could come is Oblivion 2.0"